Collar and cravat



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H. P. HUNTOON.

ooLLAR AND GRAVAT. No. 327,687. Pate'nted Oct. 6, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

HAZEN PRESOOTT HUNTOON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COLLAR AND CRAVAT.

PEGIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 327,687, dated October 6, 1885.

Application filed June 21, 1884. Serial No. 136,314.

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAZEN P. HUNTooN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bos ton, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Oollars and Cravats for Personal Wear, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to collars and cravats for personal wear; and it consists of a collar provided with button or eyelet holes, said button or eyelet holes being placed near or at the front part of the collar in a manner to receive buttons or othersuitable devices,which are secured to the cravat in positions corre sponding to the positions of the button or eyelet holes in the collar.

The object of this invention is to provide means for the adjustment and retention of the cravat upon the person of the wearer.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a collar, showing the position of the button or eyelet holes. Fig. 2 is also a view of a collar, showing the position of the button or eyelet holes; and Fig. 3 is a back view of a bow or cravat, showing the position of the buttons.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in each drawing.

In carrying out this invention, in addition to the button-holes with which collars are usually provided, I provide the button-holes A A, Figs. 1 and 2, near the front part of the collar, which button-holes are for the purpose of receving the buttons that are suitabl y placed and secured upon the bow or cravat, and shown at B B, Fig. 3. In Fig. 1 the buttonholes are represented as being in the flexible or turned-down portion of the collar, While in Fig. 2 the button-holes are represented as being in the band portion ofthe collar.

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or both plans may be employed, as the style of the collar may seem to require.

By this mode of adjustment the cravat or bow is adjusted or removed in a very brief space of time, and with little trouble,while it is secured in a manner to relievc the wearer of much annoyance incident to the accidental disarrangement of the cravat or bow.

Buttons'of any common style may be used on the cravat, or the Ordinary lever or separable collar-bnttons may be used. Eyeletholes instead of buttonholes, as shown, may sometimes be used in the collars, especially when the round-shank separable buttons are used. Hooks or wires may in some cases be secured to the cravat or bow, and used in connection with eyelet or button holes.

VVhen the cravat or bow is designed to be worn so as to be upon the outside of the collar, as in Fig. 3, the buttons will be placed upon the inside of the cravat or bow; but when it is intended to wear the cravat or bow beneath the tlexible or turned-down portion of the collar, it would be necessary to have the buttons on the outside of the cravat or bow.

I claim- The combination of a eollar provided with a collarlband and flexible portion of Ordinary construction, and having the buttonholes A A set equidistant from the front opening of collar, as described, with a cravat having buttons set thereon at points to permit their engagement with the button`holes in the collar, as set forth.

HAZEN PRESOOTT HUNTOON.

Vfitnesses:

GEO. O. PAINE, A. XVILKINS. 

